[comp.sys.next] Can't get Sybase "isql -Usa -P" to work in any form: Help?

dbd@theory.uh.edu (Dan Davison) (09/26/90)

I have been trying to install the Sybase SQL Server using the
instructions from the NeXT archives at Purdue and the (incredibly
wrong) on-line documentation.

The Sybase installation comes in three parts.  First, CreateMaster
script calls "buildmaster" builds a master database, default in
/usr/sybase/database/d_master. 

Then the CreateMaster script does a series of
        isql -Usa -P < installmaster2
        isql -Usa -P < installmaster3
which means do this series of isql commands, as the user "system
adminstrator" (-Usa) with no password (-P). 

None of this works.  All fail with "Login failed".  So, none of the
baby dbs are built, so "isql" cannot be used at all.

I need this fixed as soon as possible...it is for a course I'm
teaching in biological computing, and we were supposed to have started
Friday.


Any help would be greatly appreciated!  Please respond by e-mail if
you have any ideas, clues, etc. as to how to fix this.

dan davison
davison@uh.edu
DAVISON@UHOU (BITNET)
dbd@dna.bchs.uh.edu (NeXTMail)  <---use this as the campus mail
                                    machine is having problems right
                                    now.
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dr. dan davison/dept. of biochemical and biophysical sciences/univ. of
Houston/4800 Calhoun/Houston,TX 77054-5500/davison@uh.edu/DAVISON@UHOU

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